Survey Drafting: Drafting Practices in Survey and Engineering Offices

by Gurdon H. Wattles, Jacob F. Rems (Illustrator)

This book fills a need not covered by existing surveying or drafting text books. All chapters include examples of the subject matter and are supported by typical problems, assignments, and solutions. This text fills the need for a college level course in the specialized area of survey drafting and mapping, while providing a technical tool and reference guide for use by the draftsman, designer, or Engineer.

360 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1981

Reviews

[John Houston]

With a 1981 copyright date, the book is obviously outdated in some respects (I got a kick out of it describing "drafting machines"). However, while the methods of drafting have changed from hand-drawn maps to the bloated AutoCAD software that's around today, a lot of the principles, styles, symbols, and linetypes remain the same. The book is also helpful in learning the basics for different types of maps, easements and Title documents that you run into on ALTA surveys, and equipment used for drawing maps before computers and CADD came around.

It will also help you answer a few questions for the NSPS CST tests if you are going down that route.